No bump, no tumor, breast cancer disguised as a rash
ROCKWALL, Texas - Breast cancer does not always present as a tumor or bump. For Jennifer Cordts, it was a hue of redness similar to a sunburn on the side of one of her breasts.
"I really want this to educate. I really want somebody to say" Oh my God, I have redness in my chest. I'd better go over the mammogram and ask for more tests, "said Cordts, 46, a mother of two daughters.
Jennifer's journey began two years ago after
She has alerted her primary care physician who ordered a test.
"I went to get a mammogram and that is normal. Everything looked well, "she explained.
Mammography showed no bump, no tumor and her blood work was normal.
Her doctors have it Rejected, so she was a relief.
"I was told pretty crazy that my bra was too small," she said. A reason given by a doctor.
But after buying all the new bras, take an antibiotic prescribed by another doctor, The red and light spot on his chest is not far.
One night while her husband and her younger daughter were sleeping, Jennifer typed her symptom in Google.
"IBC has come. Inflammatory breast cancer, "she said." That was the first thing that broke out. And it was late at night. Everyone was asleep. And I was terrified. I just had a bad feeling. "
After 11 months of misdiagnosis, a biopsy confirmed what a mammogram could not.
" It took me a breath, "he said. "She recalled when the radiologist said it diagnosed her." I remember that he said an inflammatory breast cancer. And all I could think of was what I google. Because what I google says everyone dies. Let no one survive. So I knew my destiny right now. "
This was step 4.
Despite the diagnosis, Dr. Joyce O Shaughnessy at Texas Oncology at the"
The researchers have not determined what is causing the IBC, and it is important to know that the diagnosis of the IBC can not be stopped. One percent of all breast cancers and unfortunately it is often diagnosed too late.
"The doctors gave us three to five years. That was a year and a half ago. We hope that five years, is not it? "Said Rob Cordts, Jennifer 's husband.
Every three months, even if anxiety sits for the couple. This is when Jennifer has to do a scan To see if the cancer spreads.
"You try to stay positive for children and woman, but I cry every day," said Rob, 46.
"Everything will be fine," Rob said to his wife in a private moment in the room of 39 Wait. "You must stay positive OK? You have to fight. That is true? "
He has kissed his forehead while wiping tears.
" This is good, "he whispered.
" Here's the thing. This is so rare that many gynecologists and primary care providers - they do not see these things. They do not see it, they will find all the excuses that it is something other than what it is. This is how it passes undetected, "said Dr. Shannon Poppito, a clinical psychologist at Baylor Scott and White.
Like many similar patients, Jennifer's treatment is as mental as
She sees Dr. Poppito at Baylor Scott & White in East Dallas every week.
"The head and heart are 90 per cent.
Jennifer's life is now about making memories.
The life of Jennifer is now about making memories. ]She and her family plan a cruise in Alaska
Jennifer met her sister in Las Vegas for a Celine Dion concert recently, and took her 7-year-old daughter, Daisy, to see the beach For the first time.
"I would not be sincere with you or with anyone else if I did not say I was sad. And maybe a little fake. But especially sad, "Cordts said.
Yet she wants this story to warn other women to push more tests if they are concerned.
I'm not afraid to die but I'm very scared to say goodbye, "she said.
It's a scare that she does not have to worry, Never waited to face.
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